An Anchorage Superior Court judge has ruled against four university students who had sued the State of Alaska to try to maintain more than $400 million in a fund for scholarships and grants.
An Anchorage Superior Court judge ruled on Thursday against to try to maintain more than $400 million in a fund for scholarships and grants.
Gov. Mike Dunleavy has proposed funding the programs along with the rest of the budget. That can continue to happen in the future, but students won’t have the assurance that there’s a large fund set aside for them. The money was swept into savings after three-quarters of both legislative chambers failed last year to agree to keep it in the separate higher education fund. Opponents of maintaining the funding offered different arguments. Some focused on their belief that these programs should have to compete with the rest of the state budget for annual funding. Others would not vote to reverse the sweep unless the Alaska Legislature agreed to increase permanent fund dividend amounts.
The laws establishing the higher education and PCE funds used different language. The higher education fund law said that the fund is in the state’s general fund, which is used to pay the state’s budget and is subject to the annual vote. But the PCE endowment law said the PCE fund is separate from the general fund.
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